Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Maybe I'm the employee of my dreams

Today will be my first day back to work since the morning of December 22nd. If you've been following this, you might be saying, but shouldn't that have been yesterday? Um-hum, Tuesday was to be my first day back and now it's Wednesday. I didn't go to work yesterday. I called in sick. Can you believe it? Well, I hope THEY do, as I was miserably ill all day. The first day off that I didn't enjoy at all. In fact the time went by so slowly that I pretty much got to "enjoy" every minute of it!

Geez, I was mad and upset about it. Hope I didn't come off looking like a mega-slacker who just couldn't get up on time to get to work after being off so long! You know, the employee I dreamt about a few nights ago.

It all started when I took my Mom out to lunch on New Year's Day. I had a "shipwreck skillet" a breakfast with sausage, eggs, cheese, mushrooms, etc. in it. It was delicious (although I'm having trouble writing this, it makes me feel ill again!) but I was feeling uncomfortably full after eating only half of it. Good thing I didn't eat the rest. After that, we went shopping in a dollar store and each bought some things, nothing too exciting. I bought toilet bowl cleaner and plant fertilizer. But my stomach was feeling weird the whole time. I brought Mom back home, walked my little dog and did normal things including eating a light dinner and later went to bed.

At 2:00 AM I woke up definitely feeling sick and by 3 or 4 was dashing to the bathroom every few minutes. This continued until my alarm went off at 5, still at 6 and 7. For some weird reason I kept thinking I could just "throw it off" and still get to work. Even though I normally arrive at work by 7:10 or 20, by 8:00 I figured I'd better call in as I was still being violently ill. After 8:00 is when the boss and most other co-workers show up at work. I called favorite worker to ask her to still be in charge of the temp for Tuesday--and had to hang up abruptly and "use the bucket" which luckily I'd brought into my bedroom. I tried to call the Boss but had to hang up the first time for the same reason. When I finally got her phone message, I doubt the message I left made much sense, I had to babble it off in such a hurry.

Well, sorry to be so gross but I was really really sick. And I'd had a flu shot too, grrrr. I wonder if the food caused it or if the flu was just coming on anyway. Hard to say, but I'm up today and getting ready for work. It feels like a normal day except I feel so empty, having not eaten anything all day yesterday. I couldn't even drink water until the afternoon even though I was really thirsty. Finally, by dinnertime I had a can of cola. I normally don't drink soda but wanted the caffeine and couldn't drink coffee. Wish I looked as skinny as I feel right now, ha ha! Well, hope you have a good day and the flu bug doesn't bite you.

Glad it's over! The flu shot is usually designed to be the "best guess" at 2 types of influenza and they're the chest-types. Unfortunately, I don't think they can innoculate against stomach flu--I could be wrong but it's what my dr told me a few years ago. I always get one since my lungs were damaged in a fire a few years ago.